Brooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2021
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Hanifa v. State · Gilreath v. State · Wilson v. State · Hayes v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant’s right to be present . . . may be personally waived by the defendant or by defendant’s counsel. [Cit.] For there to be a waiver by defendant’s counsel, the waiver must be made in the defendant’s presence or with his express permission, or else the waiver must be subsequently acquiesced in by the defendant. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamilton v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.